## Hi 👋
We are the OakNorth engineering team. OakNorth is a profitable business that has supported the growth of thousands of entrepreneurs with a new standard of business lending.
We're looking for people to join our engineering team in building upon this success, as we grow to play a key part in redefining the future of business banking with next generation financial tools and products.
If this sounds like [how you want to work](#how_we_work), and [where you want to work](#where_we_want_to_work), then we want to hear from you!
## How we work 👷♀️
- ### Collaboration 💬
We work in cross-functional, mission driven, autonomous squads that gel over time. We pair program to work better through shared experience and knowledge.
- ### Outcomes over outputs ✅
Solving a problem for users that translates to business results is our goal. Measurements focused on that goal help us to understand if we are succeeding.
- ### Continuous improvement 💡
We optimise for feedback now, rather than presume what might be needed in the future and introduce complexity before it will be used. This means we learn faster. We share learnings in blame-free formats, so that we do not repeat things that have failed, but still have confidence to innovate.
- ### Understanding our users 👂
We constantly seek understanding from data and conversations to better serve our users' needs, taking an active part in research to hear from them directly and regularly.
- ### Continuous deployment 🤖
Seamless delivery of changes into an environment - without manual intervention - is essential for us to ensure that we are highly productive; consider resiliency; and practice security by design.
- ### Test outside-in, test first 🚦
TDD keeps us confident in moving fast, and deploying regularly. We want to solve user problems, and so we test with that mindset - writing scenarios first, then considering our solution; coupling tests to behaviour, rather than implementation.
- ### You build it, you run it ⚙️
We embrace DevOps culture and end-to-end ownership of products and features. Every engineer, regardless of their role, has the opportunity to lead delivery of features from start to finish.
- ### Cloud native ☁️
We leverage automation and hosted services to deliver resilient, secure services quickly and consistently. Where SaaS tools help us achieve more productivity and better quality results for a cheap price, we use these to automate low value tasks.
## Where we want to work ❤️
We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong.
As such, we strive for a healthy engineering environment that we can enjoy working in. In this environment, we expect to see:
- A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all
- Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together
- Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question
- No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely
## What makes working here better 😍
- ### Flexible, hybrid working 🏠🏢
A flexible, hybrid team with a dedicated London office in the heart of Soho.
- ### Work-life balance 🌴
25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances.
- ### Competitive salary & equity 🏦
We want people to have a serious stake in the business.
- ### Team socials 🎉
The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work.
- ### Good kit 💻
Your choice of the best laptop, running Mac or Ubuntu.
- ### Commuter support 🚲
We offer the cycle to work scheme.